VFX_ID | Uncharted Territory

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Concept Art: Alien City Destroyer hovers over LA

6-foot city destroyer miniature

6-foot city destroyer detail

VFX DP Anna Foerster with 30-ft pie-piece of city destroyer

In-camera-shot of Airforce One

JJ Elam and Alan Faucher hanging Airforce One model in front of photo backing

Vertical pyro set-up with camera under the ceiling

Cars line up for wave of destruction

Compressed air lifts cars and they tumble towards camera

Helicopters lifting off in front of White House miniature

Final shot of exploding White House from trailer

VFX Supervisor Volker Engel with tiny Area 51 miniature

Concept art of corridor into mothership

Concept art Area 51

Miniature of Area 51 hangar

Set of Area 51 hangar

The mothership on its back

Production Designer Patrick Tatopoulos with alien

Tabletop miniature for destroyed LA

Tabletop miniature for pilots walking towards their F-18 planes

Miniature for Grand Canyon chase with F-18 model on guide wire

6-ft city destroyer hovers over desert tabletop miniature

Finished shot with miniature destroyer and CG swarm of attackers

Finsished shot of city destroyer emerging out of "cloud tank"-clouds

INDEPENDENCE DAY

Production Visual Effects Supervisor: Volker Engel (Academy Award 1997)

Production VFX Project Manager: Marc Weigert

Directed by Roland Emmerich

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